Girolamo Troppa (1637–1710) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, depicting mainly sacred subjects. He was active in

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. He was a follower of

Carlo Maratti Carlo Maratta or Maratti (13 May 162515 December 1713) was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition ...

. He painted for the church of San Giacomo delle Penitenti, in competition with the son of

Giovan Francesco Romanelli Giovanni Francesco Romanelli ( Viterbo, 1610Baldinucci claims the date is May 14, 1617.– Viterbo, 1662) was a major Italian painter of the Baroque period, celebrated for his use of bright, vivid colors and also for his clarity of detail. Ma ...

. Works attributed to Troppa are also found in Cesi,

Narni Narni (in Latin, Narnia) is an ancient hilltown and ''comune'' of Umbria, in central Italy, with 19,252 inhabitants (2017). At an altitude of 240 m (787 ft), it overhangs a narrow gorge of the Nera River in the province of Terni ...

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Terni Terni ( , ; lat, Interamna (Nahars)) is a city in the southern portion of the region of Umbria in central Italy. It is near the border with Lazio. The city is the capital of the province of Terni, located in the plain of the Nera river. It is ...

. He painted for the church of San Salvatore and the Oratory of San Sebastiano in his native

Rocchette Rocchette is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Castiglione della Pescaia, province of Grosseto. Geography Rocchette is about 25 km from Grosseto and 6 km from Castiglione della Pescaia, a ...

, and for the church of San Niccolò (1700) in San Torri in Sabina.Indice-guida dei monumenti pagani e cristiani riguardanti l'istoria e l'arte nella provincia dell'Umbria
By Mariano Guardabassi, (1872) page 368. He died in 1710. His works include: *''The Conception'' after Castelli. *''Emperor Julian'' after one of the artists named Pomarancio. *''Portrait of Louis XIV''.

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1637 births 1710 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Umbrian painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub